Quotes About Penrose

In order to decide whether or not an algorithm will actually work, one needs insights, not just another algorithm.

Somehow, consciousness is needed in order to handle situations where we have to form new judgements, and where the rules have not been laid down beforehand.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

I realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose's theorem so that the collapse became an expansion, the conditions of his theorem would still hold, provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time.

In a sense the debate between Penrose and Hawking is a continuation of that earlier argument, with Penrose playing the role of Einstein and Hawking that of Bohr.

The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970, which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe.

Bring on your storm, my lord-and recall, if you do, the name of this castle"-Ser Courtnay Penrose at Storm's End.

His name was apparently Charles Penrose and the record was called The Adventures of the Laughing Policeman.